Quintus Dias

Quintus Dias was a centurion of the Legio IX Hispana before the Massacre of the Ninth Legion.

Biography
Quintus Dias was the son of Scipio Dias, a renowed gladiator who was later freed. He joined the Roman Army and was sent with the Legio IX Hispana to Roman Britain, where he served as the legion's centurion during its campaigns against the Picts of Scotland. Quintus was fluent in the Pictish language, and in 117 AD he was kept alive by King Gorlacon when he massacred the Romans of Pinnata Castra so that he could be interrogated. Quintus was tortured, including being urinated on, but he later escaped from the Picts. He was rescued by General Titus Flavius Virilus, the commander of the Legio IX Hispana, who was sent to eradicate the Picts. The guide of the Roman army, Etain, led the Romans into an ambush that left Virilus as a prisoner of the Celts and Quintus and fellow Romans Bothos, Thax, Macros, Leonidas, Tarak, and Ubriculius alive. Dias planned to fool the Picts by marching deeper into their territory before returning to Eburacum (York); however, many of the Romans were killed by Picts or died in the wilderness. Quintus was the last survivor of the legion by the time that he reached the construction site of Hadrian's Wall, and he reported to Governor Quintus Pompeius Falco. Falco believed that news of the Ninth Legion's destruction would cause more tribes to rise up, so he attempted to have Dias killed. However, Dias escaped despite a wound to the thigh, and he left with Arianne, an exiled Pictish woman who had a relationship with him.